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8 MONDAY * OCTOBER 1973
COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION * 281ST DAY * 84 DAYS TO COME

Thought that my new SHAPE AND SHATTER puzzle was
similar to LUCKY 13 PUZZLES. It is, but I checked and
found that THE RELUCTANT RECTANGLE (see 3/3/70) used the
idea of forbidding colors to touch each other. I am sure
that there are others as well. The way of setting up the
puzzle is completely different in SHAPE AND SHATTER and
LUCKY 13 PUZZLES.

For S & T column finished RACECOURSE and did AUCTIONEER,
DEAR ABBEY, BILLIONAIRE, BOGGLE, FLUSTER, GRAPPLE, HOLIDAY,
PATTON, and ZILCH.
While writing up BOGGLE remembered that when I met Allen Turoff (see 9/17)
he told me that one of the men in the art
department had been instrumental in getting through to Parker
to put out BOGGLE. This fellow, however, changed the letter
distribution (Allan thinks there should be more T's) and
also changed the rules to allow a cube to be visited only
once. Allan had allowed it to be used even as a double letter.
At Martin's paint store with BB bought a 28" x 32" (I am pretty sure)
pane of plexiglass for $5.69 (-) 25%.

(cont. from 10/10) [10/10]